novel
(nɒvəl )
Word forms: novels
1. countable noun B1
A novel is a long written story about imaginary people and events.
...a novel by Herman Hesse. [+ by]
...historical novels set in the time of the Pharaohs.
Synonyms: story, tale, fiction, romance
2. adjective
Novel things are new and different from anything that has been done, experienced, or made before.
Protesters found a novel way of demonstrating against steeply rising oil prices.
The very idea of a sixth form college was novel in 1962.
Synonyms: new, different, original, fresh
3. adjective
In medicine and biology, novel is used to refer to things that have never been seen before. [medicine]
It is caused by a novel virus closely related to the one that causes AIDS.
…the discovery of novel genes.
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Quotations:
Yes - oh dear yes - the novel tells a storyAspects of the Novel
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are
novel: a short story paddedThe Devil's Dictionary
If you try to nail anything down in the novel, either it kills the novel, or the novel gets up and walks away with the nailPhoenix
Collocations:
greatest novels novel form novel product novel scheme novel solution novel strategy novel technique novel technology novel twist novel way novel writer novel writing paperback novel popular novel publish a novel published novel read a novel reader of a novel realist novel romance novel romantic novel science-fiction novel series of novels spy novel subsequent novel suspense novel thriller novel trashy novel unfinished novel unpublished novel write a novel
And proceeded to tell me why he thought it was one of the greatest novels ever written.
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It was placed third in a newspaper poll of the greatest novels of the previous quarter-century.
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In the 1800s, three sisters created three of the greatest novels in literary history.
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Some of the greatest novels are comic, or what one might call comic, and they do not lack underlying seriousness for those who are able to perceive it.
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The greatest novels ask the most relevant questions (they never answer them).
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It didn't seem to lend itself to the novel form.
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Our results reveal a novel form of the auditory fear memory depending on striatal neurons at the low-intensity unconditioned stimulus.
2009, 'A Novel Form of Memory for Auditory Fear Conditioning at a Low-Intensity Unconditioned Stimulus', PLoS ONE
A novel form of tetrameric streptavidin has been engineered to have reversible biotin binding capability.
2012, 'Development of a tetrameric streptavidin mutein with reversible biotin binding capability: engineering a mobile loop as an exit door for biotin.', PLoS ONE
The two oval spinets are luxury items -- the novel product of a very skilled craftsman -- which alone would have made them expensive.
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The company soon specialized in importing canned food, which at the time was a novel product.
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But they are simply cells, not the novel products of applied research.
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By contrast, business founders are for ever creating new organisations, and launching novel products and services.
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Companies have also developed novel products such as yacn syrup and yacn tea.
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And there's no need for a long-term commitment to your novel scheme: when you've had enough, simply break out the brushes again.
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But he said their efforts were 'still not enough' to reach their goal of a 10% deposit — so they have turned to a novel scheme to plug the gap.
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The move could be the first of a series of novel schemes to enable employers to fix pension shortfalls without stumping up immediate cash.
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He sent in the sketch below and an explanation of his novel solution - and won a 100-euro reward.
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Luckily, the armed forces have come up with a novel solution.
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So the nurse comes up with a novel solution - they should tie the knot!
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He has a novel solution: putts should count a quarter of a stroke each.
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The party manifesto also puts forward a novel solution to global warming.
The Star (South Africa)
It has explored the field of photo-disinfection as a novel strategy for boosting the dwindling armoury of antimicrobial agents, with few new antibiotics likely to emerge in coming years.
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Green also revealed a novel strategy for saving the first penalty of his career.
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Similar to any novel strategy, however, set-backs and liabilities accompany the promises this technique withholds.
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He used his engineering skills to devise a novel strategy of distributing and locating shelters so that they could be reached from peoples homes in the shortest possible time.
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Iterated rounds often produce novel strategies, which have implications to complex social interaction.
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They used a novel technique called molecular virus screening, based on random cloning and bioinformatical analysis.
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To keep the price of the computer and the component count down, a novel technique was used to implement the video display.
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A novel technique was also used to reintroduce hepatocytes, the cells that carry out most of the livers primary functions, into the decellularized matrix.
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Using this novel technique researchers were able to screen for compounds with high screening scores.
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In boom times, leading law firms did not give serious thought to outsourcing or to other novel techniques for delivering legal services.
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To see images taken from high above was to realize this still novel technology might one day show far more than previously imagined.
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There are many legitimate uses for real cryptocurrencies, but every novel technology creates opportunities for scammers, who take advantage of hype and lack of rules to rip offinvestors.
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In 2010, the zeolite gas heat pump, a novel technology, was developed.
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Without some stimulus, novel technologies take years to evolve in the research departments of large car companies and their suppliers.
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Of course, the series was fiction, but investors who back companies espousing complex, novel technologies need to remember that stories that seem too good to be true usually are.
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Offering a novel twist on family dining, the restaurant will be the ideal experience for those staying over.
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This isn't the only novel twist.
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On arriving, the visitor finds himself entering what feels like a cabinet of curiosities, a heterogeneous clutter (displayed with some strikingly novel twists) that evokes the original mood.
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There may even be a novel way to apply mascara, she adds.
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Shapes evolved with new fitting techniques, such as gores and darts and a novel way of cutting fabric on the bias.
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I wonder, though, if he used the novel way of seeing whether the ground was warm enough to sow?
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Here's a novel way to end those midair arguments over whether the blinds should be up or down.
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You have a novel way of suggesting a personal programme.
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She didn't want to be a detective at all at first, because she wanted to be a mystery novel writer.
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The episode portrayed him in a light all too familiar to novel writers.
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How much leeway do the game makers and novel writers have?
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While many novelists compose fiction to satisfy personal desires, novelists and commentators often ascribe a particular social responsibility or role to novel writers.
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Students, teachers and writers of fiction could all make use of this insightful and wellresearched project about novel reading and novel writing.
The Times Literary Supplement
He looks forward, 'as people often say but don't always mean', to spending more time with his family and novel writing.
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Same with the world of literature; there are trends and fashion and zeitgeist movements, but the broad river of realistic novel writing flows on.
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Inevitably, the questions this sleight-of-hand throws up are less to do with the techniques of novel writing, fascinating though they are, than with the author himself.
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He turned to novel writing in his later years.
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He did this by making keys with paperback novel covers, tin foil, and glue.
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The pulp format declined from rising expenses, but even more due to the heavy competition from comic books, television, and the paperback novel.
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I read paperback novels with pictures of muscular barbarians on the cover.
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There's nothing more satisfying than the divesting of life's encumbrances: too-hot overcoats, disloyal friends — old paperback novels.
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It published both original hardcover and reprinted mass market paperback novels.
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He says he might have liked to have been a novelist in the 19th century, 'the heyday of the popular novel'.
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The reaction was perhaps the most shocking thing to happen in the turbulent process converting this popular novel into a bigscreen blockbuster.
The Sun
Illustrated souvenir books, a popular novel, and site markers celebrated this simplified, nationalistic version of the founding.
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In 2006 a movie was made of the popular novel with some differences.
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Many of his popular novel series have been optioned for movies.
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We want to feel that we, too, might one day publish a novel.
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He plans to publish a novel/la every year for the foreseeable future.
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I met him because he was publishing a novel.
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In the 1970s, using a pseudonym, she published a novel which she later disowned, withholding the most basic information about it even from friends.
The Times Literary Supplement
Instead of publishing the novel, the journal's editor alerted the authorities to what he considered a deeply subversive work.
The Times Literary Supplement
The published novel represents only a third of the surviving manuscript.
The Times Literary Supplement
His last published novel, and that about to be published, develop well-established themes.
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It went on to be her first published novel, a decade later.
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It was his first published novel and remains his most famous work.
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It was his first published novel and contains many of the themes present in his later work.
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Do we really need fourteen discussion points after we have read the novel?
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And why have so many people chosen to read a novel that breaks all the conventional barriers of taste?
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At some point as you read this novel, you realise you have been ever-so-gently led through the looking glass into a weird wonderland.
The Sun
She has not read my novel, but says she will now do so.
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I can't read a novel on set, for instance; it's too immersive.
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Readers of novels are conventionally empathetic sorts; players of grand-strategy games stereotypically less so.
The Times Literary Supplement
Readers of novels rarely like to feel they are being lectured.
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Readers of novels are taxed more on the ebook.
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Especially good for reluctant readers of novels.
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As the realist novel rose in popularity over the course of the century novelists began to turn increasingly to library research as a kind of inspiration.
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And that jaunty, informal, vaguely postmodern '&' hints, at least in hindsight, at a tantalizing transgression of the norms of the realist novel.
The Times Literary Supplement
Even those elements that you'd think couldn't possibly work in a modern realist novel are dexterously preserved.
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She was a pioneer in the realist novel.
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Still, both authors used the form of the realist novel to probe the machinations of society and the myriad motives of human behavior.
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Tanzanite hasn't always had a history that read like a romance novel.
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In a manner that perhaps only a romance novel could make seductive, he forces himself upon her as they flee across the desert.
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She wrote her first book, a romance novel that she buried beside a creek near her home, when she was in grade seven.
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She then wrote her first romance novel, which was rejected by publishers.
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The romance novel presents an insight into the breakdown of marriage and its consequences.
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She's written a romantic novel just in time for quarantine.
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Here, we choose our favourite book from each romantic novel category.
The Sun
You've described this as your first romantic novel.
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And so she wrote a romantic novel.
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The romantic novel reinvents itself yet again.
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At its best, its most intense, a contemporary science fiction novel can serve as a tool of recognition.
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A fine, wise work, trembling between a romance and a science fiction novel.
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On the surface, it sounds like a tired plot turn from many a science fiction novel or film: artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans and takes over the world.
Christianity Today
Written with a clear view to shocking us into action, it reads like a science fiction novel with no plot, endless background detail and a stern moral message.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2017, however, this maximalist portrayal of world-building feels somehow necessary, as it might in a fantasy or science fiction novel.
The Times Literary Supplement
I'd gone to discuss a series of novels he said he had written and wanted me to edit.
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The show began life as a stage show and a series of novels before moving to television.
The Sun
You can grab a fantastic page-turner from our carefully selected series of novels for just 2.99 every week.
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Yet a series of novels followed.
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She went on to draw upon her background in a series of novels noted for their accomplishment, humour and powers of observation.
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He wrote a spy novel and tried to make a spy film.
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It read like something out of an airport spy novel.
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If it were a spy novel, the author would have been challenged on whether the plot was realistic.
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As the cold war wound down, so did the spy novel.
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A new breed of professional secret agents was trained and sent into the field, and the spy novel was also changing.
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This remarkable story shows clear parallels with the subsequent novel in setting, theme and denouement.
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Many of the remarkable characters he had met there would find their way into subsequent novels.
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Things often only get worse for subsequent novels.
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Subsequent novels further mapped the city.
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Subsequent novels followed at threeyear intervals.
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A good suspense novel should tighten noose-like around the reader, releasing him, gasping and perspiring, only at the very close.
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Berry also has one suspense novel to her credit.
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Eight suspense novels of the 1940s and 50s 1,512pp.
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Since 1980, they have written over 50 historical/romantic suspense novels.
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In the early 1990s the pair completed three contemporary romantic suspense novels.
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Crime and thriller novels, on the other hand, have become like brands.
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He writes thriller novels for the mass market and has done a little acting.
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He also published a poetry collection in 1946 and four thriller novels.
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He took his previous technology background and incorporated that into the themes of his thriller novels.
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Thriller novels are his genre of choice for both reading and writing.
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Most of us would be content with a trashy novel or a quiet snooze, yet those are unlikely to fulfil this restless politician.
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He's said in the past that he starts each holiday by reading 'a really trashy novel'.
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But this was no trashy novel.
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Trashy novel or classic tome?
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Shelves of trashy novels, chosen for their unimportance, caught my attention.
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I went back in, coughing, to rescue my unfinished novel.
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Which unfinished novel was shortlisted?
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Lying on her desk in her study are 60 pages of an unfinished novel.
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He left an unfinished novel.
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You know these people: proud possessors of great unfinished novels, or great unfinished loft conversions.
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I got 36 rejection slips for my last unpublished novel ranging from 'shows promise but' to 'couldn't summon sufficient enthusiasm'.
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She discovers his unpublished novel, changes the author's name to her own, and sells it.
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Concepts from an unpublished novel he wrote also formed the basis for the group's stage act.
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Reports that he may have completed up to 15 unpublished novels have raised questions among probate lawyers about how his estate will be valued.
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There are several subplots along the way, and frequent extracts from the characters' rejected memoirs, unpublished novels, failed movie pitches and autobiographical play scripts.
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Taking advantage of an allowance from his grandfather, he then quit journalism to write a novel, though it was never published.
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Write that novel, chase a media job or ask that big question - you can do it!
The Sun
When you write a novel, you conclude with ambiguity.
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Then she took up her agent's challenge to write a novel.
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Why write a novel, rather than a more journalistic book?
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Translations:
Chinese: 小说, 新奇的
Japanese: 小説, 目新しい
- parallel bars
- parallel dimension
- parallel existence
- parallel investigation
- parallelism
- parallel life
- parallel line
- parallel narratives
- parallelogram
- parallel park
- parallel paths
- parallel processing
- parallel reality
- parallel rows
- parallel runways
- parallel system
- parallel track
- parallel universe
- paralyse
- paralysed
- paralysing
- paralysis
- paralytic
- paralyze
- paralyzed